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by ativzzz 5y ago
> It's bleakly amusing that you think torturers are worried about some sort of credibility calculus. Where torture is sanctioned or tolerated, people are sometimes tortured for information, sometimes for compliance - but those consi
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by ativzzz 5y ago
The problem is, for consumers, these minor technical issues don't matter as much as the content on the platforms. Yes, Netflix works much more smoothly than HBO, but we don't choose Netflix over HBO because of the quality of the v
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by ativzzz 5y ago
no
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Not OP, but I image they are more projects that span multiple teams, disciplines, and stakeholders. There's nothing (unless it hasn't been invented yet) that can't be implemented in software in a silo given infinite time, but
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> Japan went from feudal backwater to major global power in 80 years, and it completed that transformation 80 years ago Japan achieved this by looking to countries like England as an example and becoming an imperialist and colonizing par
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Any particular reason for choosing Flutter over React Native? Also seems like a very low price tag, I guess you're working with cheaper developers, have some automation in place and/or take on simple websites? Or maybe I overestim
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by ativzzz 5y ago
YMMV. I've gotten all my jobs by mass applying, going to career fairs (to be fair this was through my university), having an updated LinkedIn, etc. None were by referral.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
There is a college scholarship program for gold caddies: https://wgacaddieacademy.org/the-evans-scholarship
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by ativzzz 5y ago
You can disagree with what he says, but I think he makes a fair point. From the first article, > ‘Academia doesn’t need more polite bureaucrats. Academia needs smart people who are weird enough to be real and tell the truth, about the li
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Actually, I lived in a texas county where some (all?) of the bars required ID scans that I can only assume called the cloud to verify/store data
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by ativzzz 5y ago
From my experience with my partner's bschool, most of the classmates were either wealthy, or very talented and had sponsorship (or both)
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by ativzzz 5y ago
It's much easier for Israel to justify investing into "hard" tech that accelerates military power because they are surrounded by ideological enemies and are perpetually at war.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
The argument I get from the article is that the video game industry will not strengthen the U.S. geopolitically versus China compared to investing into "hard" technology like better semiconductors or more advanced military hardwar
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by ativzzz 5y ago
They usually give you info like size of company, stage of company and general business area the company is in, which is usually enough to know if you want to set up a 15 min call with the recruiter and ask more details like the company name
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Seconding linkedin, got my current job passively through recruiters reaching out to me and taking interviews with ones that sounded interesting.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Yes, unless you'd like our current society, which is astronomically larger than dunbar's number, to collapse, in a most likely very violent manner.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
The comment you replied to predicted your comment: > it’s interesting to watch efforts to spin things one way or another
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by ativzzz 5y ago
He chooses to not help people who make his job harder, sounds like a normal human being to me.
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If there's no government at all, then the oil companies buy their own army and become the government.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Depends on the person. I spent every minute of free time I had playing video games as a kid. I had a lot of free time since my parents were very laid back and gave it to me. I wish my parents were more strict and forced me to do other thing
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> one gets about 1-2 offers for new credit cards in the mail daily FYI, you can opt out of receiving these https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/prescreened-credit-and...
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Yea that's exactly the poster's point. IT in the U.S. is tech support, you're describing something similar to devops
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by ativzzz 5y ago
A very US mindset. I live in the US and I completely disagree with your outlook on life. Great food with friends, or a vacation with family provides so much more satisfaction to me than anything a job could provide. The only thing a job pro
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> I can ever really break out of working until I'm enfeebled here. It's a different life model. The EU seems better aligned for enjoying life outside of work. The US seems better aligned for enjoying life as a result of work. Y
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Dating is a numbers game. The more dates you go on, the higher odds you have of finding someone compatible. Sure you could be more picky and spend the same effort to go on less dates and maybe end up in the same boat at the end, you'll
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I'd much rather stay on welfare/parents basement and play video games all day than move to oklahoma and work min wage
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Then as software developers, we don't actually do anything because software doesn't actually happen
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by ativzzz 5y ago
My friend's brother is like this. It's pretty obvious upon talking to him that he has some kind of atypical neurology but his parents completely refuse this, and thus keep him trapped in his little bubble without getting any help.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> The most obvious example is that the very wealthy do not have to work. Why is this a problem? People don't become wealthy through not working. Either they, or their parents or some of their ancestors worked to allow not working. W
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by ativzzz 5y ago
How has Dolphin avoided getting sued by Nintendo? They seem very uptight about controlling their IPs

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